He was baptised by the Rev John Whiteley in the Wesleyan mission at Kawhia in 1834 and given the name of Horopapera Tuwhakararo, a transliteration of the name John Zerubbabel.
In 1830, Pondo King Faku granted permission to the Wesleyans to establish a mission within his territory.
In 1736, these two brothers traveled to the Georgia colony in America as missionaries for the Church of England; they left rather disheartened at what they saw.
In June 1823 Wesleydale, the first Wesleyan mission in New Zealand, was established at Whangaroa.
Church of the Nazarene (a branch of the denomination of the same name based on Wesleyan tradition).